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Do the friends lead boring lives?


Yes, they have witty dialogue but they mostly stay in their apartments or the coffee shop most of the time and went on only
one vacation in the entire series.

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Pretty normal lives, probably.

Well apart from going to a coffee shop every time you want a coffee.

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Sounds like my life, but without Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston. 😞

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Boring is word that describes someone’s opinion of something. So just because you think it’s boring doesn’t make it a fact.

I think they led very full lives and they enjoyed each others company.

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Wouldn't that reflect most people's lives? They had interesting and presumably well paid jobs, except for Joey whose pay probably varies from job to job. A lot of sitcoms were like that though, restrained to a few different sets and usually indoors.

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Its a sitcom. Dont treat it like a real life. Sitcoms are based somewhere in parallel reality. They never look like those are real people living in real world.

That why I never liked sitcoms. Because they just feel fake and unrealistic. And people have unrealistic problems in it.

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Judging by the reaction to Chandler getting a cigarette out i can only imagine the reaction if someone got a bag of cocaine out

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Sitcoms are escape shows, it is a world people have no real problems, and in the end everyone is going to be OK.

Before GoT I think that was what TV was about.

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I always thought that Phoebe’s life offscreen was out of the ordinary.

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